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Lola rennt (1998)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 5/16

5/16: Lola rennt, which is better known as Run Lola Run to us American pigs, is one of the most overrated films to come out of the late 90's.

It's a stupid, silly, and infantile picture that's marketed heavily toward the MTV generation of video game addicts. Every time Manni is shown, I just want to punch him in the face. Lola runs, runs, and runs. Yet she never sweats for a second.

Worst of all, it's a blatant rip-off of Groundhog Day. Watching the Bill Murray classic once is enough to last me a lifetime when it comes to movies that repeat the same sequence of events endlessly but with different results.

How the events unfolded in the German picture is impossible by going from an extreme outcome to another. Trivial moments don't become catalysts for big changes; they always involve a long chain of events toward the final outcome. Plus, people don't change, not even a tiny fraction, their movements over time if they're unconscious of being stuck in a time loop.

All in all, why should I care about the two criminal screwups in Lola rennt?

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